Leadership

Director

William Brockliss

Email: brockliss@wisc.edu

William Brockliss's website

Will Brockliss is the director of CHE. He is also a professor in the Department of Classical and Ancient Near Eastern Studies, where he teaches courses on the Greeks, Romans, and the Natural Environment, and Ancient Monsters.

Will has published Homeric Imagery and the Natural Environment (Harvard/Center for Hellenic Studies 2019), as well as articles on landscapes of war, ecology in ancient texts, and monstrosity. He is currently writing a book on horror in ancient epic.

Steering Committee

Elizabeth Hennessy

Position title: Associate Professor, History and Environmental Studies

Email: ehennessy2@wisc.edu

Elizabeth Hennessy's website

Robert Justin Hougham

Position title: Professor, Division of Extension

Email: justin.hougham@wisc.edu

Robert Justin Hougham's website

Reba Luiken

Position title: Director, Allen Centennial Gardens

Email: rluiken@wisc.edu

Tim Portlock

Position title: Professor, Environmental Studies and Art

Tim Portlock's website

Kirk Sides

Position title: Assistant Professor, English

Email: ksides@wisc.edu

Kirk Sides's website

James Spartz

Position title: Writer, Institute for Research on Poverty

Email: jspartz@wisc.edu

Graduate Associate Organizing Committee

Laleh Ahmad

Position title: Environment and Resources

Email: lahmad2@wisc.edu

Emily Burke

Position title: Sociology and Community and Environmental Sociology

Email: eeburke3@wisc.edu

Dylan Couch

Position title: Literary Studies

Email: dacouch@wisc.edu

Tomás Ignacio Pino

Position title: History

Email: tpino@wisc.edu

Edge Effects

Managing Editor
Rebecca Laurent

Sociology, Community and Environmental Sociology
rllaurent@wisc.edu

Faculty Advisor
James Spartz

Institute for Research on Poverty
jspartz@wisc.edu